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Cyber Disasters Still Coming? Yes, We Do Not Learn Fast Enough

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As Washington Post wrote a story about the old Lopht group visit to the Capitol Hill. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/ Do you remember the following historical events? True in 1871 Chicago had 330,000 residents. (from https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/CHICAGO-IN-1871-Great-Fire-of-1871 )   But this is what happened when many things happened simultaneously and overwhelmed the fire department response due to conditions(dry): The area of … Read more

Newsflash: Hackers Hack Firmware on Drug Pump

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Newsflash to all CEO’s when do you understand the problem of no mistakes no matter the potential of attack? Bruce Schneier https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/hacking_drug_pu.html Hospira Infusion drug pumps: http://www.hospira.com/en/products_and_services/infusion_pumps/ So the infusion pump helps reduce clinical safety and is now on the network. Guess what will happen next? Hackers will hack… Sure it may take some time … Read more

XARA – An old way to hack: Cross Application Resource Access

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Cross Application Resource Access = XARA  is another way to hack applications on a computer, it was researched with the following paper:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxxXk1d3yyuZOFlsdkNMSGswSGs/view The Mac OSX and iOS operating systems were tested in the research paper by the 6 researchers:  Luyi Xing,  Xiaolong Bai, tongxin Li, XiaoFeng Wang, Kai Chen, and Xiaojing Liao In fact … Read more